Are You Looking for a Missionary Challenge?
W e s t w a r d ,toward the sunset, in the fa r away Philippines, a t Tetuan, on the shores o f the Sulu’ Sea, one o f our graduates is serv ing as a member o f the faculty o f a Bible Institute, while an other graduate is on Christen dom's rugged fron tier in mys tic India! Surrounded by the tower- ( ing peaks o f the Andes in the little tow n .o f Acacio, in Bo livia, a graduate is proclaim ing the message o f the gos pel, and down in tha t inhos pitable region, the Belgian Congo, are several graduates, all zealously laboring fo r their Master! Up in Alaska, close to the
full and somewhat difficult, ye t they have proved in a marvelous way the sufficiency o f His grace as I had not known it before." A young lady graduate o f the Institute has been among th e . Pigmies o f the Belgian Congo. She says, "I consider the training I had a t the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles to be o f paramount importance in my life and work as a mis sionary." In South America, a mis sionary paid this sterling trib ute to the Biola missionaries on his field, "A lmost without exception, they are all splen did personal workers." L ittle wonder, then, is it
Let me introduce to you, Mr. Paul. Roper, Presi dent of the Student Mis sionary Union, an organ ization of missionary vol unteers in the Bible Insti tute. Mr. Roper says, “The Student Missionary Union endeavors to pre sent the need of every land and strives that its members may be fully yielded to serve in the field o f His choice.”
tha t so many Christians find unmeasured satisfaction and lasting joy in directing at least a portion o f their missionary g ifts to the Institute. It's important to provide the means o f supporting missionaries— it's equally im portant to provide the means of educating men and women to become missionaries. Said the Christ, "G o ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." Perhaps you cannot go, but your g ift to the Institute will help to prepare some one else to go. Isn't the challenge o f tjie Institute the very kind o f a missionary challenge tha t you have been looking for?
59th parallel o f north latitude, where win ter's breath is cold and piercing, a grad uate has under her watchful Care, as a Christian charge, twenty-three native Alaskan girls from five to fourteen years o f age, the majority o f whom have no par ents interested in their welfare, here or hereafter! No t so long ago, the mail brought this word from a- graduate in Addis Ababa, the very heart o f Ethiopia: "How I do praise the Lord fo r the wonderful health and strength He has given! I can stand so much more than many o f my fellow-work ers, and I often stop and say to myself, 'This is indeed the g ift o f God and meant to be used only in His service.' And though these months have been busy and
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